Jaipur officials and a national investigation team are racing to find out why a bus in the city’s Jaisalmer district caught fire, killing 22 people and injuring many more. The Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) in Pune will visit the scene to uncover the cause, spot any technical faults, and hand a report to the Rajasthan state government.
The team, led by Jaipur’s Joint Transport Commissioner O.P. Bunkar, has already examined the wrecked bus and its construction. They say “substandard manufacturing” may have pushed the tragedy. The investigation team has highlighted serious safety breaches, including an emergency exit that was too small and blocked by two seats, an unusually long body with extra sleeper seats, and flammable curtains that helped the fire spread fast.
Because the fire showed how dangerous lax regulations can be, the state transport department announced a stricter inspection regime for bus‑building factories. A special monitoring committee will audit workshops and factories that make bus bodies. So far, CIRT’s checks have inspected about 1,400 sleeper buses and seized 162 of them for violating safety norms. In Jaisalmer alone, five private AC buses were taken off the road for non‑compliance. Other cruisers have been flagged too: at KK Travels, where the fatal bus came from, out of 66 vehicles in the yard, 35 were examined and 10 revealed serious construction defects. These buses were built under the “Voluntary” label and are now under investigation.
Bunkar added that the accident’s heavy violations badly hampered rescue work, a fact that will feature prominently in the CIRT report. The investigative team finished its on‑site review last Thursday and returned to Jaipur today with a detailed set of findings. They will compile everything into a thorough briefing for the Rajasthan government, hoping the lessons lead to tighter bus‑manufacturing standards and safer travel for the state’s millions of road users.
Source: ianslive
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